Architecture and design

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Turning software complexity into simplified designs

A focus on architecture and design can help organisations deliver on their business goals.

With help from IBM architecture and design solutions, you can better align products, systems, and IT with the business; deliver more quickly on changing business needs; and gain control over your evolving architecture.

The Rational Eclipse-based and Jazz-enabled, integrated platform facilitates team collaboration, maintains requirements-to-code traceability, and jump starts development by simplifying the transition from architecture to code.

Rational architecture and design and development capabilities help:

Ensure your architecture is reliably communicated in a global environment through support for distributed teams, which helps satisfy compliance mandates.
Accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives by providing first-class modeling tools for architecting Web services and integrating with business processes.
Improve productivity and quality, increase communication through graphic modeling, and provide validation through simulation and automated testing.
Provide automated transformations from model-to-model and model-to-code with model-to-code reconciliation to help ensure requirements are met.
Enable true traceability with integrated business processes to deployed infrastructure, allowing you to act quickly to business changes.

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